A relative of the Palestinian artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for apostasy says his defense lawyers plan to appeal. Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan news website quoted Ashraf Fayadh's brother-in-law, Osama Abu Raya, as saying the verdict announced Tuesday is an initial sentence. Defense...

Kuwaiti authorities have arrested an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State, state news agency KUNA quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday. The group included a Lebanese, an Egyptian, five Syrians, two Australians and a...

Iran has called for all sides in Yemen's war to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks and accused Saudi Arabia of worsening the conflict with its military intervention against Tehran-backed rebels. In talks with visiting U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed Wednesday, Iranian officials including...

Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said. It was not immediately clear how long Hadi...